Quoting the news of the Global Network on February 10, according to the report released by the official website of SpaceX in the United States on the 8th of this month, because of the impact of the solar wind, the 40 "Starlink" satellites launched by the company on February 3 have or are about to deviate from the existing low Earth orbit. SpaceX stressed that the trajectories of these satellites will not affect other vehicles in the same orbit, and the failed satellites will eventually fall into the atmosphere and be destroyed by burning.
Although SpaceX has repeatedly claimed that the scrapping of 40 satellites in orbit will not affect the safety of space activities, NASA still issued a stern warning, according to Bloomberg reports, in NASA's report to the Federal Communications Commission, mentioning that the "Starlink" program has nearly 2,000 satellites in orbit. The plan will eventually launch 42,000 satellites, NASA has criticized SpaceX's plan for posing a threat to the safety of low-Earth orbit, and the Starlink program will also lead to the presence of Starlink satellites in every photo taken by every ground-based astronomical telescope.
NASA reiterated in the report that SpaceX must prove to the federal government that these satellites do have the ability to automatically avoid collisions while reducing the negative impact of starlink satellites on space activities. The complaints and accusations from NASA have once again made the outside world pay attention to the security of SpaceX's Starlink program. In fact, in December last year, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs announced two cases of emergency wall encounters by Chinese space stations, and the objects avoided by the Chinese space station at that time were SpaceX's "Starlink" satellites, and for a time the Sino-US outer space game detonated international public opinion. Interestingly, when the US media reported on this matter, they strongly emphasized that none of these news had been so-called "independently verified," but Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Mainland Foreign Ministry, publicly confirmed this matter at a regular press conference at that time, and bitterly criticized the United States for ignoring its international treaty obligations in outer space, but it said that it would defend "responsible outer space behavior.", and the words and deeds of the United States fully exposed its double standards.
However, the United States has not given up defending its own behavior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a regular press conference on February 10, a foreign media reporter asked spokesman Zhao Lijian how to view the United States denial of the Starlink satellite twice endangered the safety of the Chinese space station, and insisted that the satellite's activities did not meet the threshold of emergency collision avoidance standards, and the United States also said that China did not contact the relevant US departments to express concerns before sending a note to the United Nations. Zhao Lijian made it clear that China's briefing to the United Nations was in accordance with its international obligations under Article 5 of the Outer Space Treaty, and that after the incident, the Chinese side repeatedly contacted the relevant US departments by mail, but did not get a reply. Zhao Lijian stressed that the so-called "lower limit of the emergency avoidance standard" of the US side is a unilaterally established standard and runs counter to the international obligations of the Outer Space Treaty.
It is not difficult to see that although the United States has internally reprimanded SpaceX's Starlink plan and urged SpaceX to rectify it, this does not prevent them from using Starlink satellites to interfere with China's space activities.
And the Blatant lie of the United States in front of the international community in order to set aside its responsibilities can only further deplete the Biden administration's few credibility levels. However, these small tricks of the United States do not have a crushing advantage for today's Chinese astronauts, and the Shijian 21 satellite, which is currently operating in a geosynchronous orbit of 36,000 kilometers, is testing the "tugboat" function, and has successfully sent an invalid Beidou-2 satellite into a higher "graveyard orbit", which means that over time, the United States intends to "touch porcelain" continental satellites and even space stations in space will be effectively curbed.